This article appeared in my school paper.

After reading Mr. Goetting's open letter to Pat Buchanan, I knew he would be denounced in the Lanthorn the following week as homophobic, racist and trying to turn America into the second coming of Nazi Germany. The following week proved my instinct right; he did get blasted. I was greatly disappointed at the ignorance of what is really going on in America: the Cultural War for the Soul of America. This battle is being raged in our schools, colleges and in politics. Since the writers who bashed Mr. Goetting are ignorant of this battle, I have taken this liberty to inform them and everyone else of this war.

My friends, do not be fooled by the propaganda being promoted by the morally bankrupt left. The scare tactis they use, when someone disagrees with their ideas like Mr. Goetting, are being utilized as cover to promote their hatred for America's culture, their mockery of our monuments, the loathing they feel toward our traditions and the despise they share of America's traditional Christian beliefs.

When patriotic Americans like Mr. Goetting and Pat Buchanan stand up and defend our culture, they are denounced by the left as the aggressors in the cultural war. This is an extortion of the truth. Conservatives are the ones on the defensive. We are trying to simply reclaim lost values, moral truths, and America's cultural soul that has been ransacked by the Liberals.

From taking a look at the left's propaganda, one can only logically conclude they are the aggressors of our cultural war. This cultural attack by the left is being fought on several battle grounds: Gay rights, the days on the calendar we celebrate as holidays, what "facts" we teach in our school system, and moral standards.

In the controversial document the "platform of the 1993 March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay and Biequal[bisexual Rights and Liberation," we see clearly the hostile attack being waged to corrupt America's culture and morals.

Some of these rights are: Repeal of all laws forbidding cross-dressing and sodomy, lowering the age of consent for sex of all kinds, affordable artificial inseminations, access to the full range of reproductive options to all people regardless of age "i.e. abortion on demand for 13 year olds" and open U.S. boarders for all HIV positives.

This is an agenda of social agreesion, not to mention one of the biggest lists of immoralities I have ever seen.

All Conservatives say is, "We believe gays and lesbians are children of God and citizens of this Republic. They are entitled to all the constitutional rights of citizens. Their conduct can not command our respect because it is unnatural and it violently contradicts our beliefs." Is this full of hate?

Thanks to the liberal revisionists, we have seen our national holidays and Christian history totally revised from what our founding fathers celebrated and embraced. Christmas vacation has been revised into Winter Break. Columbus day is looked at in contempt: as a day of "white power" and the "destruction of Indian culture." The Bible and Ten Commandments have long been expelled from our school system. Evolution is taught as fact. The secularists have clearly conquered our culture and have replaced it with their New Age Gospel. This New Age Gospel brings its axioms: There is no God. It all begins and ends on earth. There are not absolute values in the universe; there are no fixed and objective standards of right and wrong. Every man lives by his own moral code. do your own thing.

My friends, the liberals have successfully won these battles and look what has happened to society when they implemented their agenda. Crime rates have soared. Death rates in the inner city are higher then third world countries. Sexual disease is running rampant. Kids are having kids. Families are being broken up at record rates. The National Endowment of the Arts (an institution supported by liberals) "blesses" us with a crucifix submerged in a vat of urine. It "blesses" us with a statue of the virgin mother of God and twisted in into a bloody tie rack. The liberals claim the murder of 25 million unborn babies is a sign of America's progress and freedom of choice.

Now that the liberal agenda has been clearly exposed, and everyone has seen the bitter harvest of their morally perverse agenda, it is time for those defending America's true culture to retake the lost ground. We must stand up in defense of the sacred and only natural marriage: between a man and a woman. We must reclaim the traditional American value that sex before marriage is morally wrong. We must end tax payer dollars to the NEW. To the dismay of liberals, profanity and filth are not protected by the Constitution. Conservatives believe the 25 million aborted babies is a sign of a sick and morally degenerate society. We believe it is time to put the Bible and the 10 Commandments back into the universities and schools just like our founding fathers wanted them.

While Nicole Ellet and Elena Garcia may justly claim ignorance in this war, however, the hard left has always known its criticality. "Give me a child for six years, and he will be a Marxist forever." So said Lenin. Stalin believed if he had control of Hollywood, he could control the world. James Cooper correctly states, "Too many conservatives, never read Mao Tse-tung on waging cultural war against the West. {Mao's} essays were prescribed reading for the Herber Marcuse-generation of the 1960's who now run our cultural institution. . .conservatives were oblivious to the fact that. . . modern art-long ago separated from idealism of Money, Degas, Cezanne, and Rodin--had become the purveyor of a destructive, degenerate, ugly pornographic, anti-America ideology."

Our founding fathers clearly understood what place religion and morality have in our society. Speaking of these issues George Washington said, "Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man seek the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness." This is what the right is fighting for, a return to traditional American values, most important of which is morality and religion. If you don't like this, please go join your Marxist and socialist buddies China and Cuba. As Pat Buchanan correctly stated about the Cultural War for the soul of America in Houston three summers ago, "it will not end in a brokered peace."

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